Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 140
To show his repentance of his cruel deed, he had a tomb built at Delhi over the box and the head.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: show, have, build, repent · To what, where: repentance, tomb, Delhi, cruel deed
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 show | mark |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 repentance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 show | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deed | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 deed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deed | amod |
| 8 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repentance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tomb | det |
| 13 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tomb | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Delhi | case |
| 16 | Delhi | Delhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 box | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 box | det |
| 19 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 head | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 box | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | Emperor's repentance of Emperor's cruel deed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent repentance=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Emperor | a tomb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Patient | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | a tomb not said here | Delhi | over the box and the head | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | repent | Emperor | Emperor's cruel deed | nom repentance «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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